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2010

2009

December

Website inspiration: Colour and coffee
Advanced CSS we CAN use today
Plans for this blog in 2010?
Advent calendar websites for web developers
Attribute selectors for image styles

November

Advice for web design freelancers about prices
Smart columns with jQuery
How to write better website copy
Seeing more clearly with CSS opacity
New website for fitted kitchens company

October

Some simple productivity tips for busy freelancers
See how a top designer and copy writer redesign the CannyBill website
Tooltips and slider JavaScript effects based on jQuery
My favourite software at the moment

September

New web standards books from Zeldman and Budd
Blockquotes and CSS styling
Tips to help make your website more mobile-friendly
Interviewed for The Web Design Blog
Lightbox effect without Javascript
How I got into the web industry

August

The CSS Anthology from Sitepoint
Using advanced CSS selectors
CSS Tip: Placing text on top of an image
Please start from the beginning....

July

Rotate text with CSS
It's time to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6, surely?
Web fonts make progress
Multi-column layout with CSS3 (and some JavaScript)
Handcrafted CSS - a new book from that Bulletproof Web Design guy
Firefox 3.5 released

June

Aligning your CSS properties .... and using a few different ones
Why web standards should be important to clients
Clearing floats with the overflow property
jQuery for Designers
Sitting on a Perch

May

Learning more about CSS
Universal style sheet for Internet Explorer 6
Web typography and font stacks
Twitter client that rocks!
HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas' Approach
Looking at grids for layout

April

Bamboo Juice at the Eden Project
Make your own podcasts with Huffduffer
Table layouts compared with CSS layouts
Thoughts on Twitter

March

Three Adobe Air applications for simple image editing
Sexy Web Design by Elliot Jay Stocks
Web standards anyone?
Vertical centering with CSS
Flexible Web Design by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

February

Organising website content sensibly
Interesting links this week
HTML, CSS and Web Standards. What more could you want?!
About this blog
Three image slide show scripts using jQuery

January

Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG2) explained
Add a query string to your style sheet link for cache busting
Reviewing your personal websites
Browser statistics and Internet Explorer 6 usage
Joining Twitter late

2008

December

Thinking of new income sources
Check your search engine positions with the Rank Checker Firefox add-on
Understanding HTML and CSS code is a good thing
The importance of web content
Add your own styles to websites

November

ProShot Events website
Review of Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong
Everything you know about CSS is wrong?
A simple website for a local company
Recent CSS reading and some advanced CSS techniques

October

The Holmbush Inn on Horsham Pub Guide
Shopping and blogging: website case study
Backing up files using an online application
Top 5 resources for building contact forms
Learning about CSS
Smarter CSS using an adjacent selector

September

Conditional CSS targets any browser you like
Simply JavaScript reviewed
Back to basics with To Do lists
First look at Google Chrome
Learning Adobe Air

August

French language support and training
Changing from Textpattern to Wordpress?
Geotagging
Charging clients for Google Webmaster Tools
Tiled backgrounds made easy

July

Convert a PSD file into a CSS/HTML layout
Fluid elasticity
Learning about HTML, CSS and web standards

June

Going fluid elastic
What is my job?
Internet Explorer 6 hangs on
New Dreamweaver CS4 beta

May

Great method for styling images with CSS
CSS: Display like a table
On my bookshelf: Web Design and Marketing Solutions
Jon Evans - freelance science writer
CSS Tip: Expand your font horizons

April

YAML CSS framework
Link checking your website
Future of Web Design 2008 review
HTML text editors
Greenroutes biofuel haulage
London Web Week
Wild Blueberry

March

The Future of Web Design 2008
Color scheming
Textpattern for all sorts of websites
It's been a busy week...

February

Recent CSS reading
Turner Security Systems
Bigger thumbnail images?
Fixed width or fluid layouts?
Better email productivity
SAMS Teach Yourself SQL

January

Educational toys and gifts
CSS menu trick
Versioning for IE8
Spock searches for people on the Internet
FeedDemon now free!
New Year's resolutions for web designers and developers

2007

December

Wrap text with CSS Text Wrapper
New BBC homepage
Just Holiday Nannies
Podcasts for web designers and developers

November

Handbag and luggage shop website
New website for Fireworks tutorials
CSS attribute selectors
Blog software comparison, WordPress v Textpattern

October

Creating specific page styles with CSS
Health and fitness for the workplace
Jeremy Keith knows a lot about Irish traditional music
Websites for freelancers
SEO copywriting techniques

September

CSS sprite generator
Sell T-shirts online
How to optimise your CSS code
dConstruct 07 reviewed
Safari for Windows so far

August

Wireframing with CSS
Web standards in the bedroom?
Future mobile
Mashing up RSS feeds with Textpattern
Find unused CSS selectors with a Firefox add-on

July

How to get started in podcasting
Kings Head in Rudgwick - Horsham Pub Guide
Open source CSS templates and tools
Upcoming event planning
Quick link - pseudo elements in CSS
Building a tabbed menu with Adobe Spry in Dreamweaver

June

New websites for the web/digital community in Sussex
What's happening with CSS3?
JavaScript table sorting
Fundraising for charities
Tails you win....
Safari browser for Windows
Web design and CSS books
All about APIs, mashups, and microformats

May

d.Construct 2007
CSS layout builder tool
CSS layouts for forms - tips and tricks
Here's why microformats are useful
Top three newspaper websites
What makes a successful web application?
CSS floats made easy (well, almost)

April

Web design survey
POSHify your website
The future of web design?
Bulletproof Ajax
CSS3 - the next generation
Microformats explained
Shopping made easy

March

How to develop your own web application
Glossy Blue - fantastic blog theme
What am I - web designer or web developer?
CSS overflow property
Twitter - what's it all about?
Expression Engine presented

February

Free fonts from Urban Fonts
CSS properties you may not have heard of - 1
CSS is easier than tables for web page layout
Sussex geeks clash with London Web Standards Group
Email campaigns made easy
Google provides more link data

January

Website health check
hReview in Textpattern
How to make double borders with CSS
OpenStreetMap meets Sussex geeks
How to use microformats to export your contact details
Time your work with SlimTimer
The future of Google?
Google music search

2006

December

Web development books for 2007
Microformats toolbar for Firefox
Strange website behavior from a large company
Firebug lights up
CSS books for your bookshelf
Web accessibility petition

November

Using Aardvark Firefox extension
Jay talks jQuery
Use more than one CSS class
Google, Yahoo and MSN team up
How to X-ray your webpage
ReviewMe reviewed - get paid for writing reviews
Google loses it?
CSS attribute selectors - clever styling

October

Website needed for family or friends?
CSS tip - use a separate stylesheet for testing
CSS example layouts
Microformats everywhere
Books for CSS web designers - Part 2
Website accessibility - a client asks!
Microformats meeting in London
Sussex geeks and Plone
Books for CSS web designers

September

Review of Windows Live Writer and Textpattern
A to Z of Cascading Style Sheets
It sometimes happens...
Using microformats and hCard
Using Zoundry with Textpattern
Windows Live Writer with Textpattern
Deconstructed - d.Construct 2006 review
Learn about microformats
Get your own Web 2.0 logo

August

Horsham Pub Guide - the Selsey Arms
Beginning CSS Web Development
Create a web design inspiration portfolio
CSS optimization tools
Banner ads - who needs 'em!
jQuery has the answer
Five favourite web developer blogs
Valid (X)HTML, Dreamweaver and unencoded ampersands

July

Podcasts for d.Construct 2006
CSS layouts for forms
Organise your CSS
Web Standards Group meeting report
Fireworks tutorials
How important is valid HTML for search engine rankings?
Text align property causes CSS problems

June

Stock photography cliches
Income for website owners
Spanish Horses website collaboration
Sussex Pub Links pub review
Web Standards Group meeting in London
Google spreadsheets
How to improve your AdSense income

May

Comparing Apple Mac and Windows
New website (un)cork'd
Check your colour contrast
CSS outline property
Sussex geek dinner
Google search tips
Horsham Pub Guide 2006

April

Green is the new blue
CSS and JavaScript photo galleries
Google AdSense case studies
New web standards website
CSS web templates for inspiration?
Web standards in a nutshell
Apple Macs run Windows XP
Accessible forms with CSS

March

Google refers 3 out of 4 in the UK
How to explain CSS
Rounded corners with CSS - more Nifty Corners
Running Windows and Mac on the same PC
Comments on this blog
Post to ma.gnolia or del.icio.us from FeedDemon
CSS tools and tips
CSS layouts help
Low cost web developer tools
News on the vine
Website joke of the week
Let your feet do the work?

February

Creating different CSS styles using the body tag
Jeeves retires
RSS - really simple surfing
Magnolia is a nice colour
Applying fade effects with Fireworks
A better search engine - part 2
BMW blacklisted by Google
A better search engine than Google?

January

Where to put AdSense on your blog
New CSS web standards book
Website layouts for maximum profit from AdSense
Are websites more difficult today?
Write about your favourite Sussex Pub
Impressions count
Validate HTML with a Firefox extension
Improving your RSS feed
Does Google have a spellcheck?
CSS showcase websites

2005

December

Don't make me think! Common sense web usability
Create a simple sitemap page
Streamline your website code
Why use web standards?
Firefox 1.5 released

November

Holiday cottages in Brittany
Search engine optimisation and website stats
Website design choices can be crucial
Using IE conditional comments for CSS

October

CSS XHTML web templates
CSS 2.1 selectors explained
Build a web standards-based website with Dreamweaver 8
Nice place to stay in France

September

Opera browser now free
Style an image with CSS
Tables or CSS for webpage layout - 2
Three things to avoid if you want a good Google ranking
Preview websites with a CSS style switcher

August

Do I need to use Google Sitemaps?
Build a database website with PHP and MySQL
CSS shorthand tips
New version of Macromedia Dreamweaver
Horsham T shirt

July

Abigail Fitness and Beauty
How important is Google PageRank?
Rilo Kiley More Adventurous
Naming your CSS styles
Website fonts, browser safe fonts

June

CSS ecommerce template
No tables layout for CVW Web Templates
Music hall shows for charity fundraisers

May

Pubs near Horsham
Rounded corners with CSS 2
Testing websites in different browsers
Sussex Pub Links for 2005

April

Search engine friendly ecommerce templates
Automation from Chess Systems
Rounded corners with CSS

March

Golf Links - golf club and course information and more....
Footwear Solutions

February

Building an online shop (or three) with an ecommerce web template
Dale Consulting

January

Dreamweaver for PHP/MySQL applications
Tables or CSS for web page layout?
Cliff Hotel Bude
Smartcraft ecommerce website

2004

December

Recent ecommerce website project

November

Sussex Pub Links - pub websites
Google AdWords

October

Latest website projects

September

Horsham Pub Guide
Web hosting for UK customers

August

Search engine optimisation
More about ecommerce web templates
Why choose CVW Web Design

July

How to choose a web design company
Web Templates

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